MrMacSon wrote: ↑Sat Jul 02, 2022 6:20 pm
Knowledge of and about Coptic is said to have helped decode Egyptian heiroglyphs
Yes Coptic and Ancient Egyptian are to some extent the same language written in different alphabets.
Andrew Criddle
Exactly that. Hieroglyphs aren't words, they're sounds.
Read any hieroglyph dictionary and you'll recognise the Coptic word. Coptic is Egyptian transcribed in the Greek alphabet with 6 to 7 letters from Demotic added to make up for sounds that weren't present. 6 or 7 letters? Yes, that depends on the dialect used